February 27th, 2010
Qiao-color jade is the jade art treasure-house skills of the most exquisite, artistic value, one of the highest species. Into thirty-eight years in the Qianlong (AD 1773) and “phase shade ladies” jade carving, jade is the leader in color Qiao.
Southern Gardens
This Qiao jade is reflected in the beautiful scenery of southern gardens: the top a few rounds of cylindrical tiles, slightly drooping, courtyards west of fortified thin, leak, Lu, wrinkles of the Taihu Shi, Lei Shi banana trees around the profusion of dense lush, a charming scene of tranquil southern gardens.
Breath of life
Outside the hospital gowns of young girls, hand-held Ganoderma lucidum, light to the open courtyard, Xu walked. Door long clothes girls both hands boxes, came to the door. All this through the thin crack in the door and interactive, scenario integration, the two girls were lively and vivid portrayal mental activity, the screen is full, rich flavor of life.
Gods
But, Who would have thought, this Emperor Qianlong cherished treasures, has gone from being a waste Zhuo Cheng. It turns out it was a master in the Qing Zhuo Yu serving, using a Zhuoyu bowl carved out of the remaining disposable material, which was originally a yellow-white material has been carved out of the whole Yu Wan and Tian, Yu disposable scrap the existing cracks (as amended by craftsmen skillfully into a crack in the door handle), there are orange jade leather (craftsmen put it into the Indus Zhuo, banana leaves and cover tiles, base stone), by the craftsmen of clumsy as a coincidence Seven Wonders of the deal, and eventually became a priceless treasure.
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February 27th, 2010
Identification of relevant knowledge to learn calligraphy and painting should be multi-faceted. Some more direct, and some are more indirect. To learn and master this knowledge, the identification and detection of forgeries of the paintings have a direct help. Chinese Painting and Calligraphy is a product of Chinese history and culture, therefore, talk about painting without China’s history and culture, engaging in painting identification must also understand China’s history and its cultural and historical knowledge of the basic. Such as the metrical poetry, calligraphy and seal carving of knowledge, as well as the kings of the title, Zhi Guan, ritual and so on. Ages well-known painter, most of them have a relatively high level of literary accomplishments, there are a lot of calligraphy and painting itself is a writer. They are written, the book, the theme of calligraphy and painting, often with history, literature has a direct correlation. If you encounter problems with the Ming Dynasty Qing Dynasty painters works of a poet to make poetry, then this site pretending to be painted is certainly no doubt that.
Ganzhi a Chronology Chronology of China’s unique approach, this reign France both accurate and practical, for the development of our country’s history, people, customs, economic and cultural lives had a great impact. To this end, China’s ancient calligraphy and paintings on the theme creation section of time, be followed in the form of Ganzhi plus imperial era name and even modern, and even many of the contemporary painter is still mired in this approach. So, master Ganzhi Annals law, the creation of calligraphy and painting are correctly identified, age and age of the author’s creation is essential. The so-called Ganzhi indeed the Department of Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches of the full name. A total of 10 dry dry, followed by B, C D E had hsin Rengui. Branch that is 12, followed by Si Wu Zi Chou Yin-Mao Chen has not Shenyou Ii. Ganzhi in order to match 22 to 60 of the circle, as a cycle of sixty years. It is often said that from his sixtieth of 60 years. Last year by the Tianjin People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, Mr. Zhang Cisheng compiled “Yuan Ming and Qing Painting and Calligraphy at home quick checklist of age,” a book is to arrange the projection painters and calligraphers Ganzhi Annals of age to determine the age of a painter creating a better tool.
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February 24th, 2010
Shanghai BEIJING, February 7 (Xinhua Jia Jia) first Shanghai Expo licensed products (diamonds, gold emerald) display-cum-auction on the 7th in Shanghai fall of the hammer. The end, eight carat diamond naked no time, “the Expo Star” was auctioned for 12.6 million yuan success.
At the Shanghai International Commodity Auction Corporation, under the auspices of the auctioneer, “World Expo 2010 Shanghai China will be first licensed products (Diamond Gold Emerald) auction” 7 diamond trading center in China Building. The auction will be implemented on-site auctions and a global network of auction synchronized manner, a total of 30 people who come to the scene a dozen bidders participate in auction.
The one-hour in the intense and orderly auction process completed and the final 11 auction all the auction a success, with a total auction price to reach 21.648 million yuan.
Among the many auction in Fengxiang provided by the old on the 1st auction “Meet the World Expo,” Pearl of the Orient diamond ornaments to 250,000 yuan transactions, it is a to 912 diamonds, pure gold, 18K gold, made of mahogany Shanghai landmark Building Pearl of the Orient Chinese national treasure panda and Shanghai World Expo mascot “Hai Bao” hand in hand in the Pearl of the Orient under the welcome guests from various countries, reflecting the Shanghai World Expo will work with diamonds, gold jewelry and other elements of the perfect combination.
And offered by the singer Fish Leong in his world tour concert to wear off, called “Oriental Crown” diamond crown, also set out This time auction. Learned that the “Oriental Crown” by 128 diamond inlay made, with a total weight of 59.65 grams, the end, 320,000 yuan traded.
In addition, the 21st century, jewelry provided by the “World Expo’s Diamond pendant” to 2.99 million yuan turnover; Lingyun Chui Xuan jewelry provided by the “peerless elegance emerald sets of decorated” to 1.35 million yuan was auctioned; old Hung Cheung jewelry provided by the ” China Dragon China Soul “Jade Pendant with 1.18 million yuan turnover.
According to reports, this auction is also known as “Expo products first shot”, the Expo aims to seize the opportunity to strengthen the diamond jewelry culture and the World Expo “City Better Life” theme of mutual interpretation, comprehensively promote the World Expo licensed products, to further expand the impact of China’s diamond trading center, promote China’s diamond jewelry industry.
In recent years, as China’s economic development and upgrading of the level of social consumption in China has leapt to the size of the diamond jewelry consumption, the world’s third largest market. And every year, through the Shanghai Diamond Exchange, import, export and trading of diamonds have been expanding. In 2009, in the international diamond market by the financial crisis has seriously affected the overall sluggish against the backdrop of Shanghai Diamond
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February 24th, 2010
2009 sales performance around the world how the art market? Artprice a set of statistical data is very representative of significance. In 2009 as a whole, fewer than 550 works of art priced over one million U.S. dollars, which only achieve half of 2008 sales figures.
However, the art market as a whole is not the market prices are low, the whole picture. In recent days, Bloomberg and the “Wall Street Journal” published in 2009 while the highest in the world price of 10 works of art, look at these astronomical works of art, probably people are saying, good things stand the market test.
“Muse Portrait”
1 “Muse Portrait” (Raphael “Head of a Muse”) 4800 Wan U.S. Dollar
Number one is the Renaissance 3 Jielafeier paper-based sketch work, “Muse Portrait” (Raphael “Head of a Muse”). This seems unlikely since the eye works auctioned at Christie’s in London, a 48 million U.S. dollars in the year the highest price of art. Famous works of Renaissance art seemed to surprise the market can always treasure.
The “blue carpet and pink azalea”
Second, the “blue carpet and pink azaleas” (Henri Matisse “Les coucous tapis bleu et rose”) 4650 Wan U.S. Dollar
Second is the founder of French painter Henri Matisse Fauvism in 1911 created the “blue carpet and pink azaleas” (Henri Matisse “Les coucous tapis bleu et rose”). The painting sold for 46.5 million U.S. dollars in high-priced. It is noteworthy that the first collectors of the work is the Yves Saint Laurent collection the fashion master. Paris, Yves Saint Laurent for Christie’s auction in order to run Session turnover of more than 400 million U.S. dollars into the art market last year, most people relish an auction.
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February 21st, 2010
China has had a number of scholars who have a noble temperament, but since the fifties of last century after disappearing, because the vast land no longer possible to produce noble soil.
Aristocratic generation require some specific social living space and a particular family environment nurtured since childhood. 80 years ago, China’s elite society of class struggle over the ideological line of a product, they hold high the “revolution of innocence, rebel is justified” banner, they considered to be lackeys of the exploiting classes of intellectuals, “thrown to the ground, and then set foot on one foot “, then a synonym for the nobility was guilty. Group of people who toe high gas expensive part was later made official, in the reform and opening up, the community of the main ideas major changes, so those people at once with the times, ideas have a sudden 180-degree turn and found that the word is, of nobility fashion, they will immediately think for themselves and their own sons and daughters and both are noble, and wonderful thing there is such a joke.
In the 80 years before the Chinese society is not rich, top to bottom, everyone is poor, so now that the Chinese no matter by what means the rich get rich, all upstarts, are the first generation of wealthy This is unprecedented in Chinese history had there in the future probably will no longer appeared in a very specific historical period.
“At least until after wealth for three generations may be a noble” was hidden a deep truth, while the next generation of upstarts and their children had to be noble, it is congenitally deficient, even if acquired very hard and also difficult, with lineage has nothing to do but about spiritual aspects of heritage.
The so-called pockets of nobility is not very much money, or the family who were responsible for the high officials, they can self-appointed, nor is it boring to listen to Amauri bull a few people touting the text can be found, the so-called nobility is to establish In the noble spirit of the above, while the noble spirit is a distinctive refined temperament, is a learned but it is very humble demeanor, is a respect for women (for males), have mercy on the weak, “first thing in the world concern and worry, and enjoy themselves after everyone else, “the feelings, which is not lying, do not exaggerate, sincere Zuoren anyone, to do things, which is not vulgar villain in cahoots with the city, lofty, which is not flatter power , not to bow to reality and her side, is a kind of secular, materialistic society in its own way, Anpinyuedao of freedom. In China’s rich and the bureaucrats, in their eldest Taishao Ye, even those in today’s experts and professors, we can see how many of the quality of it!
For those who hurry their children being sent to the
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February 21st, 2010
Special sale in October this year, the French luxury goods department store in Paris in spring introduced a number of rare series of promotional measures, but LV and Chanel stores has been difficult to sustain past the crowded grand seek. Munich, Germany, airport, on the big screen everywhere on Wall Street collapse, and national leaders to meet tight lens under the influence of globalization, the financial crisis penetrated into every corner of the earth, and even has long been regarded as the most resistant to cold of the luxury market have begun to feel the economic depression of the howling wind.
Luxury cars are no exception. In this crisis, apart from the most injured outside the financial sector is the automotive industry. Daimler announced that a crisis may be the latest luxury cars countermeasures level, but it’s “dynamic and static” biggest – plans to December 11 this year, until January 11 stop all production. Was mainly attributable to large-scale cut-off this month, 23 reported three quarter results showed the company’s profits fell sharply. Third quarter net profit of 213 million euros, well below analysts had forecast 818 million euros; sales fell 7% from a year earlier, to 23.8 billion euros, lower than market expectations of 248 million euros.
Compared with Daimler, BMW announced as early as a month ago, the decision of the layoffs. The face of tight market situation, until June this year, before the BMW was still optimistic about the sales forecast for this year will be completed as planned, but the rapid deterioration of the situation later in July, making the BMW caught by surprise, BMW brand cars worldwide in September a total of 1 ~ deliveries 928,000 units, down 0.1% year on year. Audi is the only luxury cars to keep global growth brand, but after the September rate of increase has also been substantially narrowed.
In the United States market, the luxury car brand is second only after the SUV and pickup models discarded by consumers, luxury is no longer subject to the Porsche’s increasingly shrinking wealth of rich people’s loved Porsche in North America in September Sales plunged 44.8%, 1 ~ September fell 19.8%. However, Porsche is clearly not the most frustrated of the luxury car brand, a year ago is also highly sought after Land Rover LandRover is now full of parked 4S stores in North America every open space, the former 9 months 60% of the decline, setting the way for Tiger the most in 30 years, but also so that India’s TATA Group, burning with impatience new owner.
The current situation, only the Chinese market, sales of luxury cars are still maintained growth momentum. 1 ~ September luxury car market rose by more than 40%, while Daimler-cut response to the crisis, but in the Chinese market, the company’s Mercedes-Benz brand once again proved its immunity. This year nine
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February 9th, 2010
China’s richest are spending each month how much money card? Like where consumers are buying, what things? Believe that many of the general public is very curious, recently, by the China Merchants Bank in accordance with its “unlimited credit” customers over the past year Consumer News published a “Report of the high-end communities.” China Merchants Bank in April last year to VISA’s most high-end “unlimited credit card” into China, directly to customers in high-income strata of China’s richest 1% of the customer. Master Card annual fee of up to 10,000 yuan per year. At present, the domestic holders of such cards are only about 1000. By the end of March this year, China Merchants Bank have joined together world-renowned consulting firm Bain & Company issued jointly issued the “2009 China’s Private Wealth Report” from the financial point of view to reveal once again the wealthy domestic investment philosophy.
Although, customer information has been banking as “the secret can not be said,” but the report was unveiled on the consumption of these top secret financial magnates of the “tip of the iceberg.”
The report shows that China’s wealthy cardholders monthly spending an average of more than 70,000 yuan, they are most like outside the shopping, luxury is the main content of their consumption, while the first choice luxury brand Louis Vuitton. In a variety of financial management, savings and stocks is China’s richest favorite investment.
Rich class of collective sketch
What kind of person has such a high spending power?
In this “top-level consumption,” the report, by “unlimited credit” represents China’s top rich people do a collective “sketch”:
Some of them treat time as gold, efficiency comes first; some of them swimming at ease, feeling for the weight; they focus on service convenience and efficiency; they want to concentrate its resources on priority to ensure the common value-added services (VIP room, golf, physical examination etc.), quality of service; they need to provide a high standard of services is not simply the pursuit of cost-effective; they like high-end consumer, while the spirit of the demands in the consumer side have a higher expectations.
The distribution of China’s richest regions – Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai
China’s most wealthy people (the size of investible assets held by individuals in 1000 for VISA) in 2008 reached about 30 million people in size. Among them, there were five provinces and cities in the number of high net worth individuals more than 20,000 people, respectively, Guangdong, Shanghai, Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang.
In which the largest number of wealthy Guangdong province, the end of 2008 to reach 4.6 million people, accounting for 15% of the share.
In these wealthy people, the assets held by individuals to invest up to a
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February 9th, 2010
The recent headlines are full of populist attacks on the rich words.
From the president Barack Obama (Obama) denounced the greed of bankers, “shameless”, to 50 million in salary cap corporate executives, to the former chief executive John Thain, Merrill Lynch (John Thain) 35,000 U.S. dollars in the toilet, from an article news point of view, Americans seem to abandon the long history of wealth esteem, and become more like about tsarist Russia in 1917.
But Americans are now really hate the rich? Or have other reasons?
Americans never open any interest in class conflict. Indeed, the United States have appeared Hui Long (Huey Long) hold high the “share the wealth” banner such as populism, but they are rarely given the U.S. a “common prosperity” what a lasting change in the culture.
Conservatives has long held that Americans do not like the class conflict, because they hope that one day I could be rich. Liberals argue that Americans just did not understand how the U.S. economy has become the inequalities and injustices; so long as they know what they have been deceived, it will take to the streets to protest the U.S. middle class, if not to take violent actions against him.
However, the recent survey, the attitude of the rich Americans are not so black and white. According to political scientist Page (Benjamin Page) and Jacob (Lawrence Jacobs) conducted a survey, Americans want wealth, but supported the tax increase on the wealthy to create more opportunities for other people thought. More than three-quarters of respondents said they agree, “started with nothing and become rich through hard work” is possible.
Half of the respondents said that a large gap between the incomes of Americans; two-thirds of respondents believed that wealth should be distributed more evenly; but most people do not agree with “closing the gap is the government’s duty” at all. (At the same time, about half of the respondents believe that the rich should pay a higher proportion of income tax.) In other words, Americans understand that the free market, knowledge-based economy needs the wealth gap, but they think that this gap should be adopted tax policy to be adjusted. Page and Jacob will be in the forthcoming publication of “class war?” A book to publish their research. They said that Americans can be marked with “conservative egalitarians” label. They support the creation of wealth, but will not affect the broader opportunities.
Of course, the two studies was in 2007
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February 8th, 2010
Scenery of the country – Switzerland, there are in fact different from the world-famous “native.” Like chocolate, while the other is the clock. If you intend to taste in this country the world’s best chocolate, happens to have spaces around a long time living in Switzerland who accompany him, and he (she) probably will not take you to the supermarket, but came to Switzerland, some of the city’s old town. In fact, chocolate world can be divided into 369 and so on, those “luxury class” has incredible chocolate behind the same unfettered-like story. At least I know that the top of the Swiss chocolate in the supermarket can not be found (and that is the Swiss supermarket).
If you want to taste you personally, be sure to go to the Old City such as the Geneva area. Take a look at the old city is what kind of paving stones (nearly square), because the Swiss are proud of the “luxury class” look like chocolate with paving stones that looked so much alike. The nobility of these chocolates come from a family in Geneva, the city operated by Yierbainian old chocolate shop, a similar group of long-established Beijing. Old chocolate shop, not open branches, not engage in chains, not into the supermarket. “At first pan” fresh chocolate is placed inside the glass counter, much like in Beijing to buy pickles. Select one of them a Swiss grandmother with the most traditional paper
Brick wrapped chocolate really can be described as genuine. It is thus found in China imports a lot of hype the so-called Swiss chocolate is so pale. However, the old parcel of this chocolate is also more difficult to bring back home, along the way afraid of pressure, fear of fear of corruption … … Although the approximate price of chocolate up to 42 Swiss francs a (10 cm square), can be very difficult for you them and the home to share, only as a memory of a magical journey. The field of clocks and watches, especially senior watch also has similar reasoning. Some of the “Advanced Custom (Bespoke Watches) and” ultra-extravagance (Uber-Watch
es) “Lists are attracted to need you to look for, and not in front of your house into a home store can successfully get the table. while the price of these tables is not only very expensive models, is extremely rare and where the creative is common.
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February 8th, 2010
In many people’s eyes, jewelry and other consumer goods is different from that it will not end with the passage of time “aging” – originally a natural tourmaline gemstones, and ten years later is still tourmaline; originally sapphire, ten years, or after Sapphire. If the style out of date, and can be removed to re-precious stones inlaid, the loss of just some manual costs and wear and tear charges. And resources are non-renewable, jewelry production itself subject to certain controls, the average natural gemstone jewelry, after a period of time, still have most of the original value. However, this does not mean that jewelry is a perfect hedge. Level from the realization that the
Investment in jewelry store of value, more of a case for the expert. For the average investor should be cautious on their hands jewelry Shen added.
The world’s luxury report [luxury.icxo.com] For example, very popular in recent years, “Diamond” and “Jade.” While carat diamond bid at an annual rate of more than 15% rise in the price of jade is also one of the original stone up to rise, but for ordinary consumers, diamond ornaments, jade jewelry has a store of value and not just consumer goods. Diamonds, for example, in addition to antique diamond jewelry, only 1 carat or more, flawless, perfect cut, color, belonging to Class A “super-special white” only preservation and appreciation of fine diamonds, while those less than half carats, slightly flawed Modern Diamond does not have a store of value,
Popular new jewelry even more so. Therefore, although carat diamond worth double, but only those that offer a direct purchase of diamonds international, but also to keep the diamond and then dished out by an international offer wholesalers will it be possible to enjoy the “diamond preservation.”
What went wrong? First jewelry accreditation. The world’s luxury report [luxury.icxo.com] truly preserve the value of the appreciation of the value of some of the more expensive, better quality varieties of precious stones such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, jade, gold Emerald or some special varieties of precious stones . However, the higher the value of gemstones, the more difficult to identify them, if not keep their eyes open, you worked so hard to spend huge amounts of money bought a pile of stones is very possible for an abandoned quarry.
Followed by the realization problem. Compared to real estate, cars, stocks, cash difficulties are the greatest assets of jewelry as a hedge disadvantage. One of the difficulties is the narrow channels, since the majority of the current domestic silver jewelry have not yet carried out the recycling business, so jewelry was limited to the realization channels and auctions at the pawnshop. The second difficulty is the relatively low percentage of recovery can be realized to the value of the assets is the true value. However, whether auction or pawn jewelry, bid prices can make you disappointed. Tense encounter at hand needs to be jewelry that realization may have their own psychological jewelry has played a discount, but in the pawnshop,
You will have to be discounted at this discount. You will find that to be the recovery of the original purchase price and the price will be a huge gap.
Why is this so? This is because the jewelry in the world as a commodity and its luxury reported [luxury.icxo.com] he commodities, its market selling price is from the factory to the point of sale terminals, etc. and gradually add links from the middle, but only as a pawnshop Your jewelry from the fundamental value of the valuation; and, pawnshops have to go through when the products re-sale profit, therefore, pawnshops tend to be lower than the assessment price of the basic values when the goods will only make your jewelry huge gap between prices. In the auction, the amount of ad valorem completely to see your luck. The third difficulty is not easily traded, precious stones are not like stocks,
As long as the stock price under the tape hung in there, some who will take disk, but the stones will have to deal much more difficult, different stones of different styles, you may not be suitable for jewelry design in the hands of another’s mind.
Another point not be overlooked is, jewelry has been fully commercialized. In other words, price is wholly dependent on the level of its brand, management, marketing cost-related. For example, the same weight, working similar to the necklace, silver was priced at 5,000 yuan, while the price of a certain brand stores 6,000 yuan, 1,000 yuan more the latter because the big to do television advertising, brand marketing costs. These costs will eventually be passed on to the pricing of goods, but certainly not to where your cash assets.
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